Biggest thing would be to get a job whereever you are going. Its technically the second easiest position to be in. If your really have cash its easy but if you have mortagage and retirement savings and such it becomes much more of a headache. someone here did manage to go to england with their kid and im not sure they had a job lined up. If your young enough you could try to get into an academic program to. That might mean taking out loans but would give you a chance to find jobs in the area. That being said the us going facist is a problem for the world so you can fight here or fight elsewhere if we lose.
You don’t.
You could walk up to an ICE agent and tell them you could beat their ass. I can’t guarantee what exactly will happen but there is a non-zero chance you won’t be in the USA anymore though!
Actually, they could end up in an American concentration camp.
Or actually end up being sold from the concentration camp to an African slaver in a country with a language you don’t speak.
But it’s free, and not in America? Everyone wins right?
You just have to phrase it differently
“a company reached out to me with a very aggressive contract. After a short period of training, I was fortunate enough to be transferred to a new country where I was given the opportunity to learn new skills such as language and mental fortitude.”
Sounds like a perfect LinkedIn post!
That’s just a free trip to a federal prison.
Not easily. Developed countries tend to have pretty strict immigration requirements.
Get a job in a company that pays for relocation
This is probably the most practical solution as long as OP is open minded about the destination
I’m not so sure what it looks like these days but if you’re young (or not too old) and smart, look into teaching English somewhere abroad, there are several schemes around the world that support this kind of thing. If you’re young and physically able, look into various work away schemes on farms or for charities.
If you’re older and in a professional career, try to find a market where your skills are in demand
Not American but my cousin did the teaching English thing! It was a while back and I’m struggling to remember where she went exactly but I think it was Korea or China, and it seemed like a great gig. I don’t think I could do it myself but if you’re an outgoing, adventurous person then it’s highly worth it imo
Did this in China for 3 of my 10 years there, don’t go there. Korea 100%.
The Peace corps is still a thing.
Not lucrative, but you also likely won’t have to worry about making rent.
If you are trying to leave the us getting tied to an US agency is probably not the best idea.
Dollars are worth a disproportionate amount compared to currencies in the global south. “Little to no money” in the US is a decent amount of money in other parts of the world. If you’re trying to leave the US rather than enter it, you’re at the relative advantage to most immigrants.
As for more specific advice, it really depends on where you want to move to. If you are a US citizen, your passport will take you almost anywhere in the world.
Moving out of this shitshow is reserved solely for the wealthy that created it.
If things got really really bad, money would stop being an issue in this discussion and people would be leaving on foot, illegally, North and South. The question is whether you’d rather risk being there with no opportunities than the US. Usually it takes civil war for people to get that desperate.
But whenever someone talks about “moving being too expensive”, I always find it a little amusing because it’s both very true and very false. It just means things aren’t so bad where you believe you still have a choice. Leaving on foot and immediately becoming homeless with your life in a backpack is a choice many people have had to make for centuries. It sucks, but it’s always an option. It’s just shitty and extremely dangerous.
Right now, i would be asking, how’s your Spanish? Can you start networking about jobs in Mexico city today?
And, really, how much is money a factor? Are you low in funds but have skills that countries want, like cybersecurity type of experience or some technical degree that few have? It’s worth checking if Canada or Mexico want whatever skills you might have. Sometimes it’s easy to immigrate if you’re young, healthy, and easy to employ.
If you’re willing enough to live off the grid and smart enough not to get caught. Huff it south until you get you a country you like.
Good luck!
You better be a good swimmer.
If you don’t have schooling to get actual career going on - you might as well stay.
If you don’t like the job opportunities right where you speak the language and has full legal status - I guarantee you won’t like the jobs where you could get to.
Join the military…
Just keep walking South until you’re in Mexico, or North until you’re in Canada.
Or East until we can’t hear them anymore. Or West until we can’t hear them anymore.
See if you have jus sanguis anywhere.
It’s not really a thing, at least legally at any statistically significant scale. Economic migration is one of the great issues of our time because it’s hard to do that anywhere.
It’s gotten more difficult in many places since the tiny percentage of Americans who say they’d move out of the country has turned into a slightly less tiny percentage, but you can do your family history to see where your most recent immigrant ancestors came from, and then see if that country’s laws permit you to get a passport or otherwise have an easier path. That doesn’t really make it cheap, but it does mean you might have somewhere to go where being broke won’t get you sent back to the US. The process itself is also usually only “cheap” compared to arranging some other means of immigration.
If you are fairly young and have a somewhat neutral North American accent, there are still programs of varying respectability across east Asia that will let you get work as an ESL teacher.
Then, they’re hardly the type of places that will make you miss the US, but the gulf states have had their guest worker economies rocked by the Iran war, and work permits for jobs worth doing might be easier to get than usual.
If you think the French military would be better than your current situation, and you are a man under 40, and you can physically make it to France, you can still join the Foreign Legion like you’re a side character in a damn Tintin comic or something.
If things are really bad, you can try to claim asylum somewhere, but unfortunately most of the places willing to accept that someone is politically oppressed in the great and free USA to the point of permitting an asylum claim are likely to be tough places for an American to make a new start.
Finally, I suppose there’s always just buying the cheapest international ticket you can find and overstaying your visa, bringing us full circle to undocumented economic migration. Imagine the desperation one must feel to take those risks.
